For those of the regulars here who think about our public education system: there might be a lesson in here for those running the expensive Canuckistani systems and those who pay for it. These parents take responsibility and make the service providers accountable. What a radical notion!!

Alongside the NGOs and educational establishments, I bet the teacher unions don't want too many people to read this.

http://www.city-journal.org/2009/bc0619lj.html

Cool stuff via Conservative Grapevine. Man made stuff that is hard to believe but real. Language warning for some of the text.
http://www.cracked.com/article_17476_7-man-made-substances-that-laugh-in-face-physics.html

Energy conservation the Spike Milligan way!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiO4qkAPFsM&feature=related

Nice Herb Alpert video, too! When I was little, my dad would play those LPs on the hi-fi console. Those were swingin' times.

Thanks for the Herb Alpert videos. We still occasionally enjoy the 40 year old Herb Alpert LPs we have in our library.

As a young trumpet player I thought that Herb was IT. He (and the cover of Whipped Cream) probably inspired more kids to take up the instrument than anyone ever. And, remarkably, he just released a new CD a few weeks ago.

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/654495

its just cool

now we have to wash their hands for them ,at least the palms will be up , as always.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090623/first_nations_/20090623?hub=TopStories

and I remind everyone that the first folks in NA were------ caucasian. the natives were usurpers.

and I better post a link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solutrean_hypothesis

and Kenniwick Man discoveries support this.the natives try to suppress Kenniwick data as it would preclude any "first nations " claim.

and one more , though there are sites devoted to Kennewick Man. the Caucasian left as evidence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennewick_Man

CAN WE Juxtopose this one! Ha

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090623/alta_libs_090623/20090623?hub=Politics

Loved the video, but now I want to order Micheal Ignatiaf one of those "cowboy hat's" for his trip to the Calgary Stampede.

i can remember going into the barn in the winter...and of course the milk cows stay inside all winter...oh those smells and the WARMTH of it all...and the 'girls' waiting to be milked and i'd turn the radio on to soothe them...then i'd feed the dears..then shovel up their shit...and then i heard the unforgettable strains of the tijuana brass playing 'the lonely bull'...all my charges would start lowing and mooing....and i understood they had been gossiping all night about 'bully' as we called him...HE who lived next barn in his cubicle...the ever priapic 'bully' who they yearned for when they were going dry....and they told the heifers about about 'bully'...the young damsels who had yet to be ****** in order to become a cow matron...

well i said ...that's enuff of THAT .....i could SMELL their VERY milk pasteurizing in their collective udder and SHUT THAT TARNATION radio right now i did mister.

yessiree i did.

From the Daily Reckoning regarding the unique country we call France:

"I'm fed up. You can't do anything in this country without either getting permission or getting a fine. You can't drive fast...even though the highways are made for much faster traffic. You can't smoke. You can't start a business...or sell one...or hire anyone. The way these employment laws work it's safer to murder a bad employee than fire him.

That was a great video--full of good memories!!

The Obama Show: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/23/AR2009062303262.html

Looks like the Huffington Post isn't waiting for the asteroid, either.

By Caroline Glick

"Could there be something to all the talk of an Obama effect, after all? A stealth effect, perhaps?"

So asked Helene Cooper, the New York Times' diplomatic correspondent in a news analysis of the massive anti-regime protests in Iran published in Sunday's Times.

http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2009/06/the-obama-effect.php

Liberal Iggy and The Rule of 72.

Leftist agrees: Iggy = Dionky.

Iggy is Dionky x 72.

"For the Liberals, getting into bed with the Conservatives is not only unusual, it's political suicide because it cuts them off from their main source of growth -- left-of-centre voters.

Further, by channelling Stéphane Dion's capitulations, they telegraphed political weakness for the 72nd time."
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"Liberals take wrong tack in tacit deal with Tories
By: Frances Russell"
urlm.in/cqjo

Great find on that Alpert video. I see a young John Pisano (Alpert's guitar player) who is filmed using a classic Fender strat and a custom Gibson. John went on to play with Joe Pass, arguably jazz's greatest fret board man.

I grew up listening to this old Herb Alpert stuff where Pisano guitar solos stood out. Those Herb Alpert, Herb Ellis and some Wes Montgomery records my folks had sent me on a life long quest to master jazz guitar. It's still a work in progress.

Thanks for the video.

Screaming headlines for garbage.

The natural end result of socialism: TO stinks.

Blaze spills the garbage.
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"MAYOR WARNS RESIDENTS(sic)

City will prosecute dumping

Kathryn Blaze Carlson, National Post"
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1726871

yes , saw this interview , apparently the USof A is being led by someone akin to Jon Stewart.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/23/AR2009062303262.html

no answers from a guy that obviously doesnt have any answers. you could see the frustration of the press.

Canada traditionally lagged ten years behind the US in trends, the essential or characteristic customs and conventions of that country.
NOW one glaring exception.
Canada turned into a soft socialist country during the reign of Pierre Trudeau’s Liberals.
Pierre Trudeau, the closet communist.
Now the United States is morphing into the exact same scenario with Obama’s Democrats.
Just like the frog in the cold water pot, Americans are in the early stages of the burner being turned higher, they don’t realize that Obama and his Democrat leftist cohorts are turning the US into a SOCIALIST STATE, thirty years after Trudeau manged it in Canada.
Oh yes, and with the complicity of THE SLOBBERING MSM.

From yesterday's presidential press briefing, regarding federal government health insurance legislation:

"...if private insurers ... tell us that they're offering a good deal, then why is it that the government, which they say can't run anything, suddenly is going to drive them out of business? That's not logical."
O come now. Does he really not understand?

"I think there can be some legitimate concerns on the part of private insurers that if any public plan is simply being subsidized by taxpayers endlessly that over time they can't compete with the government just printing money."
Ah, so he does understand.

"But just conceptually, the notion that all these insurance companies ... can't compete against a public plan as one option, with consumers making the decision [on] what's the best deal ... defies logic ..."
Jibe-O! Mind the boom! Now that's Change.

*”Left to his own devices, Mr. Ignatieff will certainly gaffe himself to death by election day.”

Dionky says,That’s not fair.

Gaffe in French? Ignatieff.

*”Poor Canada.” Pauvre Quebec, non?
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**"How to spend the summer
‘They saved the NDP from itself’”
urlm.in/cqjy

Another multi billion dollar fraud coming to Washington for votes this friday. This time for the biggest scam of all...GLOBAL WARMING.

Again, I'm presuming there's no time to read it and Barry says we must sign it NOW because "I'm the President, and I say so"?

Make sure you read the comments from that report...More fuel for the Tea Parties which are surely the precursors to the full blown revolution predicted for 2010.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124579482359843937.html

I have heard that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and
expecting different results.
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"Fannie, Freddie asked to relax condo loan rules: report"
(Reuters) - Two U.S. Democratic lawmakers want Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to relax recently tightened standards for mortgages on new condominiums, saying they could threaten the viability of some developments and slow the housing-market recovery, the Wall Street Journal said.

In March, Fannie Mae (FNM.N)(FNM.P) said it would no longer guarantee mortgages on condos in buildings where fewer than 70 percent of the units have been sold, up from 51 percent, the paper said. Freddie Mac (FRE.P)(FRE.N) is due to implement similar policies next month, the paper said.

In a letter to the CEO's of both companies, Representatives Barney Frank, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, and Anthony Weiner warned that a 70 percent sales threshold "may be too onerous" and could lead condo buyers to shun new developments, according to the paper.

The legislators asked the companies to "make appropriate adjustments" to their underwriting standards for condos, the paper added
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-Housing/idUSTRE55L39120090622

"Too cool

The President of Cool seems emotionally disconnected from events in Tehran — not unconcerned but not particularly upset, either.

This is a quality that will cost Obama plenty in coming years. He can acknowledge your pain, but he cannot feel it."
urlm.in/cqke (BelmontClub)
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"On the White House At Air-Conditioned News Conference, Obama Feels ...
New York Times - Jeff Zeleny - ‎40 minutes ago‎
WASHINGTON - The Rose Garden is surely one of the most picturesque places in the capital, so it may have been seen as regrettable when the summertime heat prompted the White House to move President Obama's first formal outdoor news ..."
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O'CoolNarcIssIst:

"Alternatively, reuses to commit to a standpoint and, in the process, evidences a lack of empathy.

Ignores data that conflict with his fantasy world, or with his inflated and grandiose self-image. This has to do with magical thinking."
http://www.globalpolitician.com/25109-barack-obama-elections

Katrina Effert puts the feminists to task: are the women strangling the newborn babies responsible for their actions or is it the man's fault?

Gleetings flom Moh... oops

Allah Akbarbarians. Muslims vs Muslims.

It's a spectator sport.
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"60 killed by Baghdad bomb as violence grows
Times Online - Alice Fordham - ‎23 minutes ago‎
More than 60 people were killed and around 120 injured after a massive bomb struck a Shia suburb of Baghdad, amid growing fears that sectarian violence may once more engulf Iraq"
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"Riot police crush protests in Tehran amid allegations of brutality
Times Online - Martin Fletcher - ‎19 minutes ago‎
It was a far cry from the massive demonstrations of last week. Today, just a few hundred protesters converged on Baharestan Square, opposite the Iranian Parliament, and they were brutally repulsed."

Them geeks/hackers are probly old white seniors toolin 'round in their jamas in their root cellars with mouses.

O'Mouse.
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"Hackers post anti-Obama message on Oregon University computer system

Geek.com ^ | 6/24/09 | Tick Hodgin

For 90 minutes this morning, hackers upset with President Obama’s vocal stance on the disputed Iranian election made their voice known. A message telling President Barack Obama to mind his own business and not to comment on Iran’s election was posted.

A spokeswoman for the university, Diane Saunders, said hackers allegedly broke through the school’s computer defenses via a third-party software application that had not been properly updated. It afforded the hackers the ability to access the computer and address the president in the unflattering way: “Hey Stupid Fly Catcher Obama!”, according to the AP.

Note: The phrase “Stupid Fly Catcher” refers to a recent incident whereby President Obama swatted a fly on camera.

Saunders said the university security officials were normally able to stop hack attacks like these. However, this one made it through and posted its message in red text on a black background."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278586/posts

It's oil George's fault.

O is not invited?

Love these words: "foreign know-how is key".
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"Big Oil Ready for Big Gamble in Iraq

Next week, Iraqi officials plan a welcome-back party for Big Oil.

The government intends to auction off oil contracts to foreign companies for the first time since Iraq nationalized its oil industry more than three decades ago. If all goes according to plan in the first round, foreign oil companies will move in to help Iraq revive production at six developed fields that have suffered from years of war and neglect.

...

Mr. Shahristani's oil deals are crucial to this war-torn country's economy. Iraq is thought to have one of the world's largest supplies of crude oil, with 115 billion barrels in proven reserves. But foreign know-how is key to its plans to boost oil output to four million barrels a day within four to five years, from 2.4 million barrels currently."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278610/posts

Finally - Obama has rescinded the inviations to Iranian diplomats to July 4th celebrations at US embassies around the world.

Yesterday, at his press conference, when asked point blank if/when he would do so, he was unable to answer (he hadn't been told what to do??) and instead replied that 'it's up to the Iranians'. To do what? Ask Obama to rescind his invitation to them?

Meanwhile, in Tehran, the administration is apparently shooting at the protestors today.

looks like Harper turns commie.
http://www2.canada.com/vancouvercourier/news/letters/story.html?id=f499578f-e0be-4383-92e6-efbae8c409df

Former Govenor General Romeo Leblanc has passed away at the age of 81
ctv/cbc

*Say what you want IMO i always liked the guy & a couple of friends of mine from NB always told me he was very well thought of down there, My Deepest Condolences to his Family.

What a MORON David Miller is. We have a strike at the worst time in the year for garbage not to be picked up, he offers a site for Toronto residents to bring their garbage, and then allows pickets to impede their leaving their garbage at the designated drop-off points.

This is Orwellian: "'We're not here to make anyone's life miserable,' Steve Miller said at Bermondsey, where pickets are now allowing one resident to dump trash every 15 minutes. 'But people just can't start throwing trash everywhere.'

Well, Mr. Miller (any relation to the OTHER Miller?), where are residents supposed to dump their trash if the drop-off depots are blocked?

We will sooon have a full-blown health hazard in downtown Toronto as the temperatures soar (30 degrees today), garbage decomposes, and the rats have a hay day.

One thing that would improve the situation would be the citizenry of Toronto ousting David Miller from the mayor's job. He's an ineffective, union-loving, toady, who is usually AWOL and has no creative ideas about how to run a city as diverse and dysfunctional as Toronto. He has no ideas for fixing anything, but defends the we-love-TO-unions status quo, which is one of the major reasons Toronto is the quagmire it is.

batb - I fully agree with your outline of Miller. He is a union-loving toad; he relies on the Unions to keep him and quite a few of his 'I'll always vote with Miller' Councillors in power.

I worked on a committee to try to get the TTC defined as 'essential', i.e., no strikes. Which is to say, the unionized workers of the public transit system would not be allowed to take a city's population hostage by having their public transit system closed down.

These are people whose benefits are far beyond that of any private company, whose workers are immune to firing, whose workers can and do, earn 100,000 per year (yes, that's right) simply sitting in a booth taking in tickets. At any rate, Miller prevented the passage of this Motion, which half of the Councillors approved, and 'his lackeys' did not...by obstructing input and debate.

He told the Council that the UN Human Rights, which Canada signed, had a major clause in it that 'guaranteed the right to strike' and that he was hardly going to go against such a basic human right.
But this is a lie.
There is no such clause.
None.
And Miller didn't allow rebuttal to his speech!

He informed the Council that he wanted to keep 'union relations' constructive and therefore, didn't want to harm their 'fundamental right to strike'.

Oh, but the UN Human Rights DOES have a clause that states that people have the right to work. So, if the TTC is on strike, people can't get to work...Miller refused to consider this.

He's a thug. Garbage collection ought to be a basic health necessity and to allow it to create health problems is a derelection of duty.

The problem is - no-one seems willing to be mayor, and take on the unions, which have been made into THE major force in Toronto politics.

A comment was posted at 6:04 PM above under my name that was not by me. The offending IP address was 74.14.20.249. I have unpublished that comment, but have kept it in the database, in case it's needed in a criminal investigation.

"Toronto T Party? That’s “T” for “Trash”

In 1773, colonists in Boston Massachusetts chose to destroy 3 shiploads of taxed tea instead of returning it to Britain over the Tea Act. This became known as the Boston Tea Party; famous for starting the saying “No Taxation Without Representation”. This was just one of the precursors to the American Revolution.

Fast forward to 2009, Toronto, Ontario."
http://www.thepolitic.com/archives/2009/06/24/toronto-t-party-thats-t-for-trash/

Dear Leader ……
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“Ignatieff haunted by previous comments on North Korea
By ALTHIA RAJ, National Bureau

OTTAWA — Past comments by Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff are coming back to haunt him as members of the Korean community accuse him of suggesting he would starve North Koreans.

While at Harvard in 2005, Ignatieff said, “I strongly support reductions in food aid” to strengthen the international community’s negotiations with North Korea on nuclear weapons.

“Is that a difficult human rights problem? You bet. But that’s where I would go,” he said at the time. “I would look at the food aid, and all the bilateral stuff we are doing that keeps this odious regime going.”

His comments have now touched a nerve in the Korean community.

“He is realistically saying let’s starve the North Korean people and let’s see if the North Koreans will feed them,” said Jack Kim, executive director of the human rights organization HanVoice.

Kim, who said he only recently became aware of Ignatieff’s comments, plans to ask Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay to clarify them at a roundtable with other Korean groups in Toronto Thursday.”
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2009/06/24/9916141-sun.html

ET, thanks for those very telling details of David Miller's dereliction of duty on a number of fronts -- and his dissembling when it comes to the unions' "right to strike." Thanks, also, for attempting to get the TTC defined as an essential service, which it is.

It's obscene that ticket sellers might make $100,000 -- these same ticket sellers that abandoned their posts last year when there was a "slowdown" and allowed subway customers to ride free.

They didn't care. They have no pride in the work they do. They are parasites on the backs of the rest of us and we continue to pay and pay and pay while the city of Toronto goes to Hell in a hand basket.

'Not a proud legacy for Miller.

O'Swapper.
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"He [Obama] is swapping live enemy prisoners — facilitators of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps operation guilty of murdering American captives — for dead hostages."
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"Until next time

Andrew McCarthy at the National Review points out another change in the Administration’s war on man made disasters, formerly known as the War on Terror. He is swapping live enemy prisoners — facilitators of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps operation guilty of murdering American captives — for dead hostages. These Iranian special forces raided an American base disguised as friendlies, carted away prisoners and executed them when the rescue forces were hot on their tail. They were captured by the coalition and for a moment the scales were balanced by the avengers. But retribution and victory are so yesterday. Let McCarthy take up the story.

On Jan. 20, 2007, five American soldiers were killed and three seriously wounded in Iraq. As Bill Roggio relates at the Long War Journal, it was a daring operation: a twelve-man terrorist team disguised as U.S. servicemen attacked our troops as they held a previously arranged meeting with local officials in Karbala. Four of the soldiers were alive when they were abducted from the scene. They were handcuffed and murdered in a remote location when the coalition forces attempting to rescue them closed in.

Given the sophistication of the raid and the intelligence required to pull it off, it was a virtual certainty that the mullahs’ special forces, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, were behind it.

More than a decade earlier, in concert with Hezbollah (Iran’s forward terrorist militia), the IRGC had bombed the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, killing 19 members of the United States Air Force. In Karbala, the IRGC had relied on what Michael Ledeen of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies aptly calls its “most lethal element,” the Quds (Jerusalem) Force, in combination with a burgeoning, Hezbollah-like network of local Shiite terrorists.

This was confirmed two months later when U.S. forces captured Ali Mussa Daqduq, a high-ranking veteran of Hezbollah, in Basrah. As Roggio explains, Daqduq had been tasked by Iran to organize a network of terror cells to strike coalition forces in Iraq. The network would operate under the direction of Qais Qazali. Qazali and his brother, Laith Qazali, were captured along with Daqduq.

You can guess what is coming next."

http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/06/24/until-next-time/

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